Reposted by Jay EskayA secret third thing @secretthirdthing.bsky.social · 22/05/2026like, in the past 5 years the average person's understanding of trans people went from "so and so got a sex change" to "sex is an immutable and unalterable force of the universe, but some people like to play pretend" And like... its such weird magical thinking that even "allies" got on board with 448658
Reposted by Jay EskayA secret third thing @secretthirdthing.bsky.social · 22/05/2026"we will keep marching towards progress" my guy, we have gone like 50 years backwards actually. we are losing rights that were already won a long time ago actually 337335
Reposted by Jay EskayJesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention. 3946322015
Reposted by Jay EskayDanglinDon @danglindon.bsky.social · 31/03/2026On this #TransDayofVisibility, if you're seeking an authoritative collection of TransJoy, look no further than "We Deserve This. A Transfeminine Automotive Lookbook" [Carrara, 2024], by @victoriascott.bsky.social. Truly a love-letter, & one everybody ought to read 09428
Reposted by Jay Eskayamy forest @amyforest.pds.pub.moe · 31/03/2026I got banned from twitter in 2023 for this drawing. They called it "violent speech". It had over 40K likes and too many comments for me to read before my ban, but I still see it floating around here and there. Save a copy, and use it freely. No attribution needed. Love u #transdayofvisibility #tdov 2202781511013
Reposted by Jay EskayAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 27/03/2026apparently Wikipedia has more rigorous standards than every university on the planet, university administrators, edtech enthusiasts, (certainly more than) AI bros, several prominent academic journals, and too many professors and teachers 101089324
Reposted by Jay EskayCloudy🐈 @hellocloudy.bsky.social · 24/06/2025hey, i made a terrible comic instead of working #makeaterriblecomicday2025 127206605941
Jay Eskay @jshykta.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Me: "AI company asks AI to do unethical thing, publishes press release when it does. Are we trying to avert or immanentize the Torment Nexus, anyway?" @aaronsofaer.bsky.social: "All of the "AI" companies are trying to immanentize the Torment Nexus and most of them will even admit it out loud." 031
Jay Eskay @jshykta.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Shock! Groundbreaking New Study Finds The Same Thing As The Last Three 051
Reposted by Jay EskayHonest J @frangsbo.bsky.social · 12/01/2026'Every accusation is a confession' is still the best model we have of their collective mind. 125913
Reposted by Jay Eskay🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 26/12/2025low key convinced all the talk about how to reset your nervous system is capitalist propaganda tbh 1018319
Reposted by Jay EskayJanelle Shane @janelleshane.com · 19/12/2025Highly amused by the stories of companies using agentic AI chatbots to run their internal company stores, only for their employees to immediately Bugs Bunny the chatbot into giving them free stuff www.aiweirdness.com/when-a-chatb...aiweirdness.comWhen a chatbot runs your storeYou may have heard of "agentic AI", which is basically the idea that you can hook up a large language model to controls that do real things. The controls might run internet searches, run commands to o... 13898221
Reposted by Jay EskayMike Toole @miketoole.com · 21/12/2025'bugs bunnying' is the perfect term, because it invariably involves doing almost literally this to an LLM chatbot 012555
Reposted by Jay EskayVƎX Werewolf @vexwerewolf.bsky.social · 19/12/2025If you're not trans, I don't think I can fully explain how important this is. It's so powerful that one of the most circulated science media publications in the world has come out and said "trans children are real and providing transition care improves their lives." That's groundbreaking. 3394493941
Reposted by Jay EskayWeird Alex @jackalpants.bsky.social · 29/09/2025If you're cis, trans people are your coalmine canary for a collection of civil liberties. BODILY AUTONOMY: does your body belong to you, or to your parents/husband/state? PRIVACY: do you owe everyone you meet a full medical history? EXPRESSION: to what extent is your clothing a legal matter? 8569284
Reposted by Jay Eskaydepths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 13/11/2025had to see what this disambiguation hatnote was about and sure enough, apple's original thumbnail (before they fixed it): 12850173
Reposted by Jay EskayMitch Dyer @mitchyd.bsky.social · 24/10/2025If only everyone could have predicted this www.thegamer.com/ea-generativ...thegamer.comEA's AI Game Development Tools Are Apparently So Bad That It's Costing More Money To Fix Their MistakesA new report suggests that EA's pivot to AI is just causing costly mistakes, and the developers hate it. 10864792353
Reposted by Jay EskayVincent Becherer (BOARD ARTIST AVAILABLE FOR WORK!) @vincentbecherer.bsky.social · 25/10/2025“I’m not worried AI will take my job. I’m worried some executive or management person is going to *think* it can.” -Random YouTube comment 470571
Reposted by Jay EskayAxel Bruns @snurb.info · 13/10/2025Precisely. Banning young people from social media just so ill-informed boomers can get over their made-up moral panic simply ends up harming the most vulnerable, for whom social media are a critical lifeline. 👇👇👇abc.net.auLGBTQIA+ advocates say social media ban will 'cut off' regional queer teensLGBTIQA+ advocates are concerned the social media ban will have a significant impact on queer youth in regional and remote areas of Australia. They say there are not enough offline, physical supports for these teens to access when the ban comes into effect. 29946
Reposted by Jay EskayGreg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 16/10/2025How about "RBA companies' utter incompetence at raising productivity means they will have to accept lower profit growth" 413028
Reposted by Jay EskayLiz Saila @lizsaila.northsky.social · 05/10/2025Your periodic reminder that "biological sex" is a propaganda term spread by anti-trans groups, largely pushed by Christian Nationalists orgs like Alliance Defending Freedom; Family Resource Council & Family Policy Alliance; and the Heritage Foundation. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...docs.google.comSex and Gender Definitions in Legislation 14718
Reposted by Jay EskayAlice Averlong 🏳️⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 05/10/2025I accidentally glitched out an animation I was working on and created a perfect example of what the passage of time feels like to someone with ADHD 8078092556
Reposted by Jay EskayIris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Today's article is about a form of bad-faith speech somewhat akin to bullshit, which I'm calling (because why not) wank. I don't quite think I've focused the ideas down as much as I can, but I think it says some interesting things regardless:deadsimpletech.comAn essay on wank | deadSimpleTechThis captures well the uncomfortable, slightly disorienting feeling that wank creates when you're subjected to it, wherein you're expected to speak about and think about the statement as though it say... 37538163
Reposted by Jay EskayPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 11/09/2025These are all people who wanted to kill their enemies before Charlie Kirk was shot, are more vocal about it now, and will keep lusting for it long after Charlie Kirk has been buried. Today’s biggest event could have been a dog farting and they would have reacted by wanting you dead. 21067741791
Reposted by Jay Eskaythe moon report 🌘 @seachanger.bsky.social · 11/09/2025people still think that showing neo-fascists the respect we wish they would show us will somehow teach them to do better or compel them to stop hurting us this is flawed logic & morally repugnant, let it go 210626
Reposted by Jay EskayA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 11/09/2025It’s fine to say that violence is never the answer, but I can’t help but observe that for Charlie Kirk violence was always the answer, and it was the only answer he offered, and, because of the privilege that he refused to admit he had, he could enact it from a comfortable and respectable place. 3565531130
Reposted by Jay EskayAlfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 25/07/2025Summary thread & call to action on payment processor censorship, and why it's become a big issue among in the LGBTQ community and among artists. Lobbied by conservative activists, payment processing companies have pressured businesses into removing games, books, etc from online stores. 1/ 12511
Reposted by Jay EskayAlfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 25/07/2025There is a counter-campaign to call the payment processors and demand they reverse the censorship, see here for who to call and write bsky.app/profile/melt... 10/ 163
Reposted by Jay EskayOh Joy Sex Toy @ohjoysextoy.bsky.social · 22/07/2025When Jude and Lizzie re-meet at a house party, they practically don't recognize each other. In fact, they have to re-introduce themselves with their new names! Read this sweet story by @fizzfloat.bsky.social about reconnecting with old friends as your true self. www.ohjoysextoy.com/meeting-agai... 013332
Reposted by Jay EskayAsher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 19/07/2025Melinda Tankard Reist is on the advisory board of Australia’s age assurance tech trial 3194
Reposted by Jay EskayGwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 15/07/2025I have a banger thread on informal feminized labor and "male loneliness epidemic discourse" cooked up in my head, but I can't get my kids to leave me along long enough for me to write it 721614
Reposted by Jay EskayGwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 15/07/2025We are not lonely because we COULD NOT SURVIVE THIS alone. For a lot of men, loneliness is a problem, sure, but a problem borne of relative privilege. They are not in relationship because their survival (and/or the survival of their children) does not hinge on existing in relationship. 651263
Reposted by Jay EskayAnarchy Goose @anarchygoose.northsky.social · 16/07/2025Visa and Mastercard should not have control over speech and it's very strange this is a position that even needs to be argued. 5844408
Reposted by Jay EskayLindsay @neomeruru.bsky.social · 12/07/2025streaming services: [high monthly fee incentivizes waiting until a series is finished before subscribing to binge] also streaming services: “this series didn’t perform well enough right out the gate, so we’re cancelling it before the season’s even over” 0438
Reposted by Jay Eskaynora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 10/07/2025i think lauren is being rhetorical here but iirc there's some significant feminist thought on the way pre-"AI"/proto-"AI" "personal assistants" are always by default "women" 8799111
Reposted by Jay Eskaynora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 10/07/2025now that i think of it, with claude, grok and chatgpt, they basically stopped making them woman-coded like siri as soon as they wanted them to act like topic based authorities 121658494
Reposted by Jay EskayAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 11/07/2025Bezos is considering purchasing Conde Nast as a present to his now wife. Conde Nast owns not just Vogue but also Wired. Apparently, purchasing media to turn it into a propaganda organ is now the latest nuptial gift among the oligarchs. I'm going to become the joker. www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...yahoo.comJeff Bezos Rumored To Buy Vogue as Wedding Gift to Lauren Sanchez, ‘Source’ ClaimsOne of the final steps in Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez‘s wedding could be the billionaire buying Vogue as a gift for his wife. After Sanchez’s big feature on the fashion magazine’s cover, sources cla... 1142630690
Jay Eskay @jshykta.bsky.social · 12/07/2025Unsurprising - writing code is easy; reading and *debugging* code is hard. 032
Reposted by Jay EskayMETR @metr.org · 10/07/2025We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't. 11968702993
Reposted by Jay EskayLeah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 09/07/2025X’s head of product posted yesterday in the pre-dawn hours that he works in “an office where Al researchers are building the Antichrist”: 18680197
Reposted by Jay EskayMicah @rincewind.run · 09/07/2025being able to see commits to the racism dial in real time is not the future I wanted 0862
Reposted by Jay Eskay👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 05/07/2025Oh this is. Oh I had not realised this but BINGO. That’s it. I would read a couple thousand words of somebody exploring the connection between labour (and the USA republicans tbf) focusing on ‘saving’ manufacturing, mining, etc because of gender implications 926564
Reposted by Jay EskayRick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 04/07/2025“Hi everyone, I just need to be clear my priority is revoking access as quickly as possible for this participant,” NDIA chief executive Rebecca Falkingham wrote to senior colleagues on June 7 last year. “All other issues are a second-order priority.” 18349168
Reposted by Jay EskayNick Frichette @frichetten.com · 04/07/2025This wasn’t a joke btw. It works. You’d be surprised how much uwu breaks guardrail implementations. 11371121
Reposted by Jay EskayDr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 04/07/2025It’s absolutely critical that the Albanese govt holds firm against the attacks on the PBS by US pharma. That includes protecting generics. Affordable medicines are key to our universal health system. 37507159